All you Israelites,<n id="1" /> make a decision here!&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

Caleb received<n id="1" /> Hebron, just as Moses had promised. He drove out the three Anakites.

Whenever they went out to fight,<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> did them harm,<n id="2" /> just as he had warned and solemnly vowed he would do.<n id="3" /> They suffered greatly.<n id="4" />p>

But he went back<n id="1" /> once he reached<n id="2" /> the carved images<n id="3" /> at Gilgal. He said to Eglon,<n id="4" /> &#8220;I have a secret message for you, O king.&#8221; Eglon<n id="5" /> said, &#8220;Be quiet!&#8221;<n id="6" /> All his attendants left.

When Ehud approached him, he was sitting in his well-ventilated<n id="1" /> upper room all by himself. Ehud said, &#8220;I have a message from God<n id="2" /> for you.&#8221; When Eglon rose up from his seat,<n id="3" />

So Gideon took ten of his servants<n id="1" /> and did just as the <sc>Lordsc> had told him. He was too afraid of his father&#8217;s family<n id="2" /> and the men of the city to do it in broad daylight, so he waited until nighttime.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">So the five men journeyed on<n id="1" /> and arrived in Laish. They noticed that the people there<n id="2" /> were living securely, like the Sidonians do,<n id="3" /> undisturbed and unsuspecting. No conqueror was troubling them in any way.<n id="4" /> They lived far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.<n id="5" />

When you invade,<n id="1" /> you will encounter<n id="2" /> unsuspecting people. The land is wide!<n id="3" /> God is handing it over to you &#8211; a place that lacks nothing on earth!&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

We have enough straw and grain for our donkeys, and there is enough food and wine for me, your female servant,<n id="1" /> and the young man who is with your servants.<n id="2" /> We lack nothing.&#8221;

Here are my virgin daughter and my guest&#8217;s<n id="1" /> concubine. I will send them out and you can abuse them and do to them whatever you like.<n id="2" /> But don&#8217;t do such a disgraceful thing to this man!&#8221;